The immediate jump with so many on the right to calling everything a false flag and some fedop is as irritating as it is interesting. There's definitely some strange psychology going on with that. A confluence of multiple factors I think. First, most of those types aren't really that intelligent. They might not be retarded or incapable of living a normal life, but their ability to form and analyze complex ideas in their heads is somewhat low. This leads them to being unable to see nuance, incapable of telling the difference between similar but different things, and prone to lumping a lot of things together because it's easier on the brain.

I find a lot of them are people who were formally normie types who believed the news, read the newspaper, went along with the crowd, and then something happened that broke them from that pattern. They discovered one lie and it shook their understanding of the world so much that they ran as far away from that as possible. Instead of believing everything, they now believe nothing. There are some conspiracies that are true of course. For instance, we know the Clintons have had people murdered. But if you were to present an intelligent and thoughtful person with 10 conspiracy theories, they might be able to come to the conclusion that these 3 are true, these 4 have elements that are true but are overall false, and these other 3 are totally false. The typical 'conspiracy theorist' we're talking about though will just believe all 10.

There's an emotional aspect as well. People like to puff themselves up and think they're more important, more knowledgeable, more astute, etc than they really are. There is a temptation towards this feeling like they are in on some secret knowledge and how it grants them a special status. They are prone to thinking believing in every crackpot speculation they run across actually means they're more intelligent than everyone else, because they're one of the special chosen few who knows what's really behind everything. It feels good to think you're apart from everyone else because you know something they don't or saw truths they couldn't. The irony is that for most of them, they're actually believing mostly lunatic bullshit because they're less intelligent, with a handful of true things thrown in by chance. There's an interesting Dunning Kruger Effect element in which the typical crackpot 'space isn't real' types believe they are smarter than everyone because they are in fact dumber.

I find it mostly ends up being two types of people. Young guys in their 20s who are just believing the opposite of the common view because it's rebellious and different, and being young makes one want to act that way. And older guys in their 40s or 50s with mostly boring and predictable lives, working boring a predictable jobs, feeling overwhelmed and awash in a world where the bad guys win most of the time and there are so many forces and organizations that don't care about them and work against them most of the time. Being able to sit at their computer desk reading 4chan or watching Rumble videos and telling themselves this means they're warriors in a secret war against the forces of evil is emotionally gratifying, despite being nonsense. It's actually quite pitiable, and I would feel sorry for more of them if they weren't so insistent on being as loud, abrasive, and irritating about it as they are.

The immediate jump with so many on the right to calling everything a false flag and some fedop is as irritating as it is interesting. There's definitely some strange psychology going on with that. A confluence of multiple factors I think. First, most of those types aren't really that intelligent. They might not be retarded or incapable of living a normal life, but their ability to form and analyze complex ideas in their heads is somewhat low. This leads them to being unable to see nuance, incapable of telling the difference between similar but different things, and prone to lumping a lot of things together because it's easier on the brain.

I find a lot of them are people who were formally normie types who believed the news, read the newspaper, went along with the crowd, and then something happened that broke them from that pattern. They discovered one lie and it shoock their understanding of the world so much that they ran as far away from that as possible. Instead of believing everything, they now believe nothing. There are some conspiracies that are true of course. For instance, we know the Clintons have had people murdered. But if you were to present an intelligent and thoughtful person with 10 conspiracy theories, they might be able to come to the conclusion that these 3 are true, these 4 have elements that are true but are overall false, and these other 3 are totally false. The typical 'conspiracy theorist' we're talking about though will just believe all 10.

There's an emotional aspect as well. People like to puff themselves up and think they're more important, more knowledgeable, more astute, etc than they really are. There is a temptation towards this feeling like they are in on some secret knowledge and how it grants them a special status. They are prone to thinking believing in every crackpot speculation they run across actually means they're more intelligent than everyone else, because they're one of the special chosen few who knows what's really behind everything. It feels good to think you're apart from everyone else because you know something they don't or saw truths they couldn't. The irony is that for most of them, they're actually believing mostly lunatic bullshit because they're less intelligent, with a handful of true things thrown in by chance. There's an interesting Dunning Kruger Effect element in which the typical crackpot 'space isn't real' types believe they are smarter than everyone because they are in fact dumber.

I find it mostly ends up being two types of people. Young guys in their 20s who are just believing the opposite of the common view because it's rebellious and different, and being young makes one want to act that way. And older guys in their 40s or 50s with mostly boring and predictable lives, working boring a predictable jobs, feeling overwhelmed and awash in a world where the bad guys win most of the time and there are so many forces and organizations that don't care about them and work against them most of the time. Being able to sit at their computer desk reading 4chan or watching Rumble videos and telling themselves this means they're warriors in a secret war against the forces of evil is emotionally gratifying, despite being nonsense. It's actually quite pitiable, and I would feel sorry for more of them if they weren't so insistent on being as loud, abrasive, and irritating about it as they are.

The immediate jump with so many on the right to calling everything a false flag and some fedop is as irritating as it is interesting. There's definitely some strange psychology going on with that. A confluence of multiple factors I think. First, most of those types aren't really that intelligent. They might not be retarded or incapable of living a normal life, but their ability to form and analyze complex ideas in their heads is somewhat low. This leads them to being unable to see nuance, incapable of telling the difference between similar but different things, and prone to lumping a lot of things together because it's easier on the brain.

I find a lot of them are people who were formally normie types who believed the news, read the newspaper, went along with the crowd, and then something happened that broke them from that pattern. They discovered one lie and it shuck their understanding of the world so much that they ran as far away from that as possible. Instead of believing everything, they now believe nothing. There are some conspiracies that are true of course. For instance, we know the Clintons have had people murdered. But if you were to present an intelligent and thoughtful person with 10 conspiracy theories, they might be able to come to the conclusion that these 3 are true, these 4 have elements that are true but are overall false, and these other 3 are totally false. The typical 'conspiracy theorist' we're talking about though will just believe all 10.

There's an emotional aspect as well. People like to puff themselves up and think they're more important, more knowledgeable, more astute, etc than they really are. There is a temptation towards this feeling like they are in on some secret knowledge and how it grants them a special status. They are prone to thinking believing in every crackpot speculation they run across actually means they're more intelligent than everyone else, because they're one of the special chosen few who knows what's really behind everything. It feels good to think you're apart from everyone else because you know something they don't or saw truths they couldn't. The irony is that for most of them, they're actually believing mostly lunatic bullshit because they're less intelligent, with a handful of true things thrown in by chance. There's an interesting Dunning Kruger Effect element in which the typical crackpot 'space isn't real' types believe they are smarter than everyone because they are in fact dumber.

I find it mostly ends up being two types of people. Young guys in their 20s who are just believing the opposite of the common view because it's rebellious and different, and being young makes one want to act that way. And older guys in their 40s or 50s with mostly boring and predictable lives, working boring a predictable jobs, feeling overwhelmed and awash in a world where the bad guys win most of the time and there are so many forces and organizations that don't care about them and work against them most of the time. Being able to sit at their computer desk reading 4chan or watching Rumble videos and telling themselves this means they're warriors in a secret war against the forces of evil is emotionally gratifying, despite being nonsense. It's actually quite pitiable, and I would feel sorry for more of them if they weren't so insistent on being as loud, abrasive, and irritating about it as they are.